Well, it at all sounded good.
“Greg Dyke, the former BBC director-general, has recommended the abolition of the licence fee after almost 90 years, in a report commissioned by David Cameron.”
But then…
“The broadcaster should instead be funded directly by the state from taxation, argues the dossier, to be published by the Conservatives in the New Year. Dyke, who is chairing a panel of 12 senior industry figures, says this would save £100m in administrative costs.”
No. We need to save £3.5 BILLION per annum, Mr Dyke, and the State should not be funding any broadcaster! If this is where Cameron is coming, I fear those of us who have been cynical about Conservative intentions towards the bloated BBC bureaucracy will be proven correct. Alas. Thoughts?
I thought so. Nothing the BBC would love more than to directly leech off the taxpayer. A whole new gravy train in the making. Even less accountability. Why should Dyke have say in anything? Cameron is going to be a real disaster. A PR man who just wants to rule and will do just enough to keep the real Tories quiet, docile and subservient and buy off the rest with office and power. All the while continuing the work of Blair and the liberal elite.
I prefer to see Brown win. At least we know our enemy
Why on earth support Brown? There is perfectly good true conservative patriotic party out there led by Lord Pearson called UKIP, which is the real alternative to both Labour and David Cameron’s Blue Labour.
Pearson has repeatedly challenged the bias at the BBC and UKIP have made it policy to have a royal commission into the possibility of privatising the corporation. I’m surprised that Biased-BBC are still fooled by Cameron and are not supporting UKIP more.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/100018194/in-lord-pearson-ukip-has-acquired-a-formidable-leader/
Of course he wants it through taxation. It is because there are a growing number of people refusing (or avoiding) to pay for the telly tax and by adding it to income tax, people cannot chose to pay or not pay for it, even if it is for the legitimate reasons, such as not watching live broadcast.
It’s Climate Change’esque in its deceit.
My heart sank when I heard who was advising the Conservatives – proper hideous little Beeboid rentagob.
Yes, I know it would be a good idea to save the admin costs of the ghastly method of collecting the licence fee. Yet I am totally against the idea of giving money to all sorts to make public service programmes, not because I want the BBC to have a bonanza, but simply because it will mean more money being thrown about – certain to be a newer bigger better gravy train, and whenever there is government…er….our money on offer, there are always chancers and worse crawling out of the woodwork to grab it for their own purposes.
I want less, much less, public money going to the BBC, not the creation of more troughers. I do not want any public money going to C4, for example. Let them earn their own keep. And cut the BBC down to size, i.e. about one tenth of what it is and what it spends.
I see someone has started a discussion about this here:
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=1185044
“I see someone has started a discussion about this here”
Waits for the beeboids on digital spy to argue how important the BBC is and why everyone, even if they watch the BBC or not, should pay up and shut up – the BBC is just too important to be left up to that little old thing called freedom of choice. Let every television company earn their own keep, especially when the company is pack full of unuseful idiots making dRoss and propaganda for the masses.
“The broadcaster should instead be funded directly by the state from taxation, argues the dossier-
When I read that I thought it said “argues the tosser”,
Are you sure its’s not a typo?
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You must be insane or delusional to think that Cameron will do anything whatsoever to turn the BBC into a private organisation.
Cameron has adopted most of Labour’s policies (Climate Change mania, No to an EU referendum, massive Overseas Aid spending etc.), and the BBC will be no different. Tory shadow minister Ed Vaizey has already praised the BBC as a great national institution, and any party that takes on that hoary old socialist Greg Dyke as an advisor is clearly not going to cut the BBC loose!
This is what I’ve been saying for ages and ages. Every time I get into a discussion with somebody about the fundamentals of the license fee and the BBC’s status as the official national broadcaster, I end up trying to convince the other person that even if the license fee was abolished tomorrow, the BBC would still be the official national broadcaster, paid for without recourse by you the taxpayer, and just as biased as always.
Now you see the first blush of proof.
thoughts – the licence fee is regressive, so at least tax is a fairer funding mechanism
But using taxes would create more problems – more political involvement as it would be less obviously separate fom government, and probably more susceptible to politicians, and higher general taxes to replace us all paying 140 quid a year wouldn’t go down well
Isn’t this the same guy that was caught wandering around rambling incoherently with his dong in a Roland Rat puppet or something? I think you’ll find it was. Yeah, look at that photo. Definitely the sort of guy who’d rape a puppet. What a sick f*ck.
He was Director General of the BBC, you say? Huh.
As soon as I heard that Dyke had been employed by the Conservatives I knew then that they intended to “support” the BBC.
All Conservative policies are based on Camerons misgiuded view that he should emulate Blair. He actually thinks that Blair won the 97 election because he was popular – no, he won because the Conservatives were seen as “sleazy”.
Cameron lives in his own PR world where ideals mean nothing
After 18 years, it is not just that they were sleazy, but that we were bored with them and they had run out of steam. Even they were bored with them! Nobody could endure any more of them and nobody could contemplate carrying on.
And Blair was popular – with the media. They really went for him in a big way (like The One’s media fest in America last year) and that’s why Brown lost out and Mandy stuck the knife in.
“Nobody could endure any more of them and nobody could contemplate carrying on. ” and instead voted in the most authorative corrupt lot this country has ever seen. Now there’s irony for you.
Meanwhile the BBC’s tentacles spread further
“The BBC has been given the go-ahead for the controversial venture to bring internet services to the television set, a decision that could make the public service broadcaster a leading player in a new TV technology.
The venture – known as Project Canvas – which is designed to strengthen free-to-air broadcasters in the internet age, has been fiercely criticised by British Sky Broadcasting, the pay-TV operator.
Set-top boxes using Canvas software are expected to be available late next year for about £200, allowing people to access websites such as the BBC’s iPlayer, NHS Direct and Amazon through their TVs.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/eecc2264-edb3-11de-ba12-00144feab49a.html